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Category: International
Deadly ‘invisible shipwrecks’ plague migrants bound for...
A sharp increase in the deaths and disappearances of migrants at sea heading to Spain’s Canary Islands, along the West African coa...
Cyprus President determined to get negotiation with Tur...
Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades told UN Member States on Friday that he is determined “to set the negotiation process” with Tu...
Human rights in Belarus continue downward spiral, warns...
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said on Friday that she continues to be alarmed by “persistent allegations” of “widespre...
Afghanistan: Girls’ education must be a given, urges de...
Ensuring all Afghan girls can be educated must be “a zero condition” for the Taliban, before international recognition of their de...
With region ‘at a crossroads’, Palestinian President ca...
The President of the State of Palestine Mahmoud Abbas on Friday called on the UN Secretary-General to convene an international pea...
New Government will earn confidence of Lebanese people ...
After a month-long political crisis, Lebanon has embarked on a new phase that will “hopefully mark a promising step on the path of...
At UN, Hungary urges vaccine access for all, warns of m...
Hungary’s Foreign Minister on Thursday evening called for equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines and warned that without it, “massi...
Syria: 10 years of war has left at least 350,000 dead
A decade of war in Syria has left more 350,200 people dead, High Commissioner Michelle Bachelet told the Human Rights Council on F...
Alarm bells are ringing over conflict, COVID and climat...
Looking back over the first four days of the high-level week, the Ireland’s Prime Minister said a series of alarms have sounded in...
‘Save as many lives as possible, and leave no one's hea...
Announcing the donation of up to 60 million COVID-19 vaccines to the UN-led COVAX facility, Yoshihide Suga, Japan’s Prime Minister...
South Sudan ‘determined to never go back to war’
South Sudan is “ready to turn a new page” towards greater peace, development and prosperity, Vice-President Rebecca Nyandeng de Ma...
Myanmar: UN expert says current international efforts f...
The UN independent rights expert on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, told the UN Human Rights Council on Wednesday that c...